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WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866. .
VOL. VI. No. 51.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1913.
Per Week, Ten Cents.
OKD: DAIRY MDE
OF 'TYPHOID
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Four times Ellen Deering Cangrov,
tried to get rid of her ninth husband
and not until Friday was she success
ful. Worth $30,000 in her own name,
she gave, under the terms of the set
tlement, $2000 to her last soul mate,
Grant Nicholas Grangrow, as "ali
mony." Five of her husbands have
died. Four have been divorced.
1 Intimations than an attempt at
poisoning had been mad came out
during the trial as did also a latter
from J. S. Woods in which it was sug
gested that an offer of money had
been made for the testimony of a wit-
-ness in rhe case.
The fumily are Indians and have
lived at Pendleton for a number of
years. The complaint uponr which
the woman brought the action againsi;
her husband was that of desertion.
Twice the case was brough in Multno
mah county, once in Clackamas, and
once in Marion.
Not until it appeared in the circuit
court of Clackamas county and the
case had been turned over to Brow
nell & Stone did the woman win her
point and get the divorce decree for
which she prayed.
According to the testimony that was
introduced, the husband took lunch
with, her on June 14, 1912 and the
next day was ill. According to a sum
mary of the case made by the physi
cians, he had taken strychnine. He
believed that he had received it in the
food that he ate at her table that day,
and that she had made an effort to
rid herself of him by other. mean3
than the divorce courts. This feature
of the case was not gone into, how
ever, and no attempt was made to
prove the statement.
Mrs. Grangrow married her ninth
husband at Walla Walla, Octobter 1,
1908. They have lived at Pendleton a
greater part of that time since. Sho
is now a resident of Gladstone.
The case was tried before Judge
Eakin Friday. McNary, Shield &
Smith, of Salem, represented the ds
fense. The woman was G3 years of
age and her husband 59.
Husband Flirts..
Because he flirted with other wo
men, Ida E. Simpson brought a di
vorce action in the circuit court Fri
day against her husband, Walter F.
Simpson. She alleges that he went
with other women over her protests
and remonstrances, that he was cruel
and inhuman to her, and that for days
he would pout around the place and
would not speak to her.
Once, he whipped their nine-months-old
child and left bruises and marks
all over his body in spite of the moth
er's objections to the punishment. He
made her care for the child, she says,
do a man's work around the house and
garden, keep the place in order and
do what repair work was necessary.
She asks for $50 attorney fees, $25
a month alimony, and the custody of
the minor child, George Edward.
THE REAPER.
CLASSMATES ATTEND
FUNERAL 0F1EWS1E"
William F. Skeen, aged 48 years,
died at his home at Liberal Thursday
night of tubercular trouble. He is
survived by his widow and two chil
dren. The funeral services will be held at
2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, inter
ment in the Canby cemetery. His
mother, Mrs. Sarah Skeen, is one of
the old settlers of the state and was
one of the first white children born
. in Oregon.
i Many of the classmates of Victor
Justin, the 12-year-old newsboy who
died Tuesday from typhoid fever, ac
tended the funeral services Thursday
at St. John's church. Requim High
Mass was celebrated. The floral of
ferings from the boy's classmates and
friends were beautiful. Interment was
made in the Catholic cemetery at
Mountain View. The following were
pall-bearers, all classmates: Otto
Smith, Philip Soreghan, Bruno Weber,
and August Reisbsrger.
PLANS TO BE LAID
FOR JUVENILE FAIR
Mlrs. E. W. Scott, superintendent of
the Oregon City division of the juven
ile fair, will have a conference with
her assistants and members of the
committee at the office of the county
Superintendent Gary in the court
house at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
At that time, they will lay plans for
the character of the exhibit that this
city will have at the fair when the
samplss are collected.
HEALTH PROBE RESULTS
IN POSITIVE STATE
MENT OF CAUSE
Anderson in Philadelphia Press.
FIRE CHIEFS TO COME
Taft to Address Judges
MONTREAL, Aug. 29. A confer
ence of. judges of the United States
and Canada is to be held in this city
tomorrow as a preliminary to the an
nual meeting next week of the Ameri
can Bar association. The conference
will be held under the auspices of the
judiciary committee of the association.
William H. Taft, former president of
the United States, is eheduled to de
liver the principal address.
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T ODAY
HERS
THEREFOR
OR-
THE LOST ART OF MIND
ING ONE'S OWN
BUSINESS
A PRESENT DAY SATIRE
In Two Parts
Behold in this film the uplifter, a peculiarity of
the human species, quite convinced that every
thing that is, is wrong. Forth to the uplift, he
minds everybody's business but his own, until
that business is as clean, pure and spotless as
himself. Verily, in these later days, is there
no school of art named
"Minding One's Own Business"
NEW YORK, Aug. 29. The forty
first annual convention of the Inter
national Association of Fire Engineers
which is to be held in this city the
coming week and for which the final
preparations have now been complet
ed, will bring together the greatest
gathering of fire fighters the world
has ever seen.
Heads of the fire departments of
nearly all the leading cities of the
United States and Canada will be pres
ent. In addition, the attendance will
include representatives of many for
egin cities.
Among the fire chiefs from abroad
will be A. R. Dyer, of London; Capt.
Vivert and Lieut. LaPoint, of Paris;
Thomas Purcell, of Dublin; Col. M.
Kirhoff, of St Petersburg; Capt. Por
dage, of Edinburgh; F. A. F. Schaen
ker, of Frankford-on-the-Main; Felix
Mitchel'., of Cape Town; C. E. Bening
ton, Of Pretoria; D. J. Stein, of Mel
bourne; August Deering, of Honolulu;
and C. E. Weidman, of Panama.
Present Papers.
. The convention will have its formal
j opening at the Grand Central Palace
I on Monday. Mayor Gaynor will wel
come the visitors. At this and the
subsequent business sessions a num
ber of papers will be presented. Fire
Commisioner Johnson and Chief Ken
Ion, of the New York department, will
discuss "Fire Insurance and Its Re
lation to Incendiarism."
Chief Henry C. Bunker ana William
Clark, direcor of public safety of Cin
cinnati', will talk on "The Inspection
of Buildings and Contents by Msmbers
of a Uniformed Force." Other pa
pers will be read by Chief A. V. Brun
nett, of Birmingham, Ala., on "Motor
Fire Apparatus," and by Charles S.
Demorest, of the New York fire de
partment, on "The Gasoline Motor
Pumping Engine."
To Make Tests.
Wednesday there will be scientific
tests of various kinds of apparatus at
the pier at the foot of West Fifty
fourth street. Here a grandstand ha3
been erected, from which the visiting
firemen can watch operations. A mo
tor engine and a steam pump will be
placed side by side on the pier. In
the first test the motor will be run for
six successive hours with 100 pound3
pressure at the pump, the test requir-
i ing a certain number of gallons to be
! delivered at the nozzle each minute.
For six hours more 150 pounds pres
sure will be carried, and the engine
will be run steadily with an increas
ing pressure of fity pounds -every six
hours until a maximum pressure of
300 pounds has been reached.
Getting the Most
for Your Money
Does not always mean buying
the cheapest thing.
It does mean buying what you
actually want at tha time you
want it, and buying sure quality
at the lowest market price.
The advertising columns of The
ENTERPRISE, ..are a shopping .
guide. They contain the an
nouncements of reputable merch
ants and manufacturers who are
bidding for your patronags.
Each advertiser in his way is
trying to render you the service
you want.
Each has faith in his goods or
he would not advertise them.
A minute's reading put you in
touch with the market.
It gives you information for to
day to-morrow-or . the to-morrows
yet to oome.
You learn what the world is do
ing and you learn the value of a
dollar. Get the habit of reading
- the advertising.
Comparison wi'.l be made with the
time consumed by the steam pump in
delivering the same amount of water
at the nozzle. ,
Big Parade.
Friday will be the day of the big
parade. More than 1,500 members of
the New York department will take
part.
There will be apparatus represent
ing 150 companies and 3,500 uniform
ed volunteers and members of raid
departments outside of this city. The
parade will, in a way portray the his
tory of organized fire-fighting, for ev
ery sort of fire-fighting apparatus will
be shown. There will be examples of
the old hand apparatus. Horse drawn
engines will be in line, and as a cli
max will be seen the modern motor
driven engines and carts.
At the conclusion of the parade the
firemen will make their way to River
side Drive for the dedication of the
firemen's monument erected there,
The late Bishop Potter suggested the
construction of tha monument follow
ing the death of Deputy Chief Kruger
of the New York department in 1907.
TO STUDY CURES FOR
ATTI
NEW YORK, Aug. 29. For several
years the authorities of the city" have
continued their warfare ,' against un
safe theatres until now Fire Commis
sioner Johnson, who has been leading
the campaign, is satisfied that the
theatres of New York city are about
as safe from firs as it is possible to
make them.
Commissioner Johnson is of the
opinion that the danger, if there is
any, is not from the possibility of fire,
but from panie, which may be caused
by any trivial incident, even when
there is no fire. He recently held a
conference with the managers of the
principal theatres of the city with a
view of devising means to prevent
the outbreak of panics in theatres
(Continued on Page 3.)
Back to the milk cans of the Star Dairy, the state health board has traced
the source of the Oregon City typhoid fever epidemic.
Either directly or indirectly every case that has come to the attention
of the authorities on public health may be blamed to the colon bacdlli found
in the water with which -the dairy washed its milk cans.
One third of all of the consumers that the company served have fallen
victims to the disease. Out of the 117 persons who are on the regular
routes of the dairy, 38 typhoid cases were directly due to the contaminated
water that was used.and the remaining nine cases are traced, by round
about methods, to the same source.
The board also condemned the private wells of the city as dangerous to
the public health, declared that bacteriological tests meant nothing as to
their condition, prohibited persons who had had the disease from working in
dairies for a year; repeated its belief that the city water is the purest in
the state, and called upon the people of the community to boil every drop
of water that was used and that had not been taken from theity mains.
In accordance with the suggestions of the board, Mayor Linn E. Jones
issued a proclamation Friday night calling upon the residents of Oregon
City to follow the instructions that the health officers had given and warn
ing them to carefully inspect the sources of their milk and water supplies.
In conference with the council in
the rooms of the Commercial club
Friday night, the members of the state
board laid out the results of. its in-
vestigations. It showed that, to date,;
there have been 47 cases of typhoid
fever in the community. Thirty-eight j
of these cases are directly chargable 1
to the contaminated water that the ,
dairy used in which to wash its milk j
cans. I
Startling facts are revealed by the ;
board's exposure of conditons in the '
city and the investigations that It '
conducted to discover those facts.;
One-third of the entire list of consum
ers of the dairy have fallen victims
to the disease in the weeks that It has
raged unchecked in the city. ThoBe
cases that the health officers have
been unable to directly trace to the
dairy are charged against it through
circumstantial evidence that leads
them to believe that all of the in-;
stances reported had the same com- j
mon source.
Surface Wells Condemned. 1
Surface wells are condemned by the
board. Bacteriological tests of well
water mean nothing, the physicians
told the council.. Well water may.
test pure when it is examined in the
laboratory of the state and the first
rain that comes may send its quota
of filth and disease, through under
ground channels, back into the well
that has heretofore had waters pure
and free from the baccilli of typhoid.
The doctors declare that there is
no sure way of dealing with the wa
ters of a well when used for domestic
purposes except boiling and they call
upon the people who do not get their
supply from the city's mains to thor
oughly sterilize, in this way, every
drop that is used in their homes.
" Not only must well water be boiled,
but the water that is used in ;the
household for washing vegetables:
that are to bo eaten raw or that
cleanses any of the kitchen utensils
that are not afterwards heated to a
high temperature on the range must
be sterilized in order to afford abso
lute protection.
City Water Pure.
Repeated guarantees of the purity
of the city water were given by the
members of the board to the city coun
cil Friday night. Repeated tests,
running over the period since Decem
ber 15, have convinced the health of-
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Be Broadminded.
GOME AND SEE THIS SHOW
DANCE
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Canemah Park
Bowker's Orchestra
of Portland
New Denver Meat' Market 7th
and Railroad
Special Sale
Pure Pork Lard 12'2 cents per
pound in 3, 5 and 10-pound pails.
We handle first class fresh and
smoked meats, and give S. & H.
Green Trading Stamps with ev
ery 10c purchase.
Benedictine Abbot to Lecture Here
NEW YORK, Aug. 29. The Catholic
clergy and laity of this city are pre
paring to welcome Abbot Gasquet, the
head of the English Benedictines, who
is to arrive here tomorrow from Eu
rope. Abbot Gasquet is a churchman
of great distinction and is chairman
of the commission appointed by the
Pope to undertake the revision of the
Vulgate. He is coming over to.deliver
a series of lectures in the United
States and Canada.
Celebrate Pickle Day
PLATTEVILLE, Co'.o., Aug. 29.
Residents' of Platteville and vicinity
suspended business today and joined
in the festivities of the annual "Pickle
Day" carnival. The festivities were
conducted on an elaborate seals, for
this year's cucumber crop in this sec
tion was the largest on record.
BEAVERS TAKE ANOTHER
Portland 3, Sacramento 2 (10 innings)
:. San Francisco 2,' Los Angeles 1.
Venice , Oakland 1.
Coast League Standings
Portland.- , . . .. . .569 ...
Sacramento ..' , ...... .500 .
Venice .... ; . . ; r. ........ . . . .' .500 '.
Los Angeles .483
San Francisco .". .483
Oakland ......... . . . .469
Exchanges Close Until Tuesday
NEW YORK, Aug. 29. The New
York Stock Exchange, the Cotton Ex
change and virtually' all the other big
exchanges in this city closed today
for the Labor Day holiday and will
not resume operations until Tuesday.
IBJ
TODAY
S RED LETTER DAY
Bring your STAMP BOOKS to the Premium
Parlor located in our store and receive TEN Zf
GREEN STAMPS FREE
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY '
Save your soap wrappers, tobacco tags
and coupons. We exchange them for
stamps 1
Special
SALE
Today
ON
SHOES
CUT OUT THIS
COUPON
10 Extra Stamps Free
With each 50c purchase we give
10 extra stamps, upon presenta
tion of this coupon.
BANNON & CO.
Special
SALE
Today
ON
REMNANTS
SSI
SB
wl
The following Oregon City stores
give the famous Hf&C stamps ::
BANNON & CO., Department Store
DENVER Meat Market, Batchers
JONES Drug Co., Druggists
PRICE BROS., Clothiers
LARSEN & Co. , Grocers
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OREGON CITY, ORE.
MASONIC TEMPLE BLDG.